{ _Lamellibranchiata_ (Oysters, &c.)
{ _Brachiopoda_ (Lamp-shells)

(3) TUNICATA (Ascidians, Tunicaries, or Sea-squirts)

(4) ARTHROPODA { _Crustacea_ (Crabs, &c.)
(Animals with { _Myriapoda_ (Hundred-legs, &c.)
jointed feet) { _Arachnida_ (Scorpions, Spiders, &c.)
{ _Insecta_

{ _Annelida_ (Earth-worms, Leeches, &c.)
{ _Enteropneusta_ (Balanoglossus)
{ _Bryozoa_ (Sea-mat, &c.)
{ _Nematoidea_ (Thread-worms)
(5) VERMES { _Trematoda_ (Flukes, &c.)
{ _Turbellaria_ (Planariae, &c.)
{ _Cestoidea_ (Tape-worms)
{ _Rotifera_ (Wheel-animalcules)
{ _Gasterotricha_
{ _Gephyrea_ (Sipunculus, &c.)

(6) ECHINODERMA (Star-fishes, &c.)

{ _Ctenophora_ (Beroee, &c.)
(7) COELENTERA { _Actinozoa_ (Coral animals)
{ _Hydrozoa_ (Jelly-fishes, &c.)

(8) SPONGIDA (Sponges)

{ _Infusoria_ (Animalcules with mouths)
(9) HYPOZOA { _Gregarinida_
{ _Rhizopoda_ (Foraminifers, Radiolarians,
Flagellata, &c.)

PLANTS.

{ _Algae_ (Sea-weeds, Confervae, &c.)
{ _Fungi_
{ _Lichenes_
(1) CRYPTOGAMIA { _Hepaticae_ (Liverworts and Scale-mosses)
(Flowerless { _Characeae_ (Nitella, &c.)
Plants) { _Musci_ (Mosses)
{ _Marsiliaceae_ (Pepperworts)
{ _Equisetaceae_ (Horsetails)
{ _Filices_ (Ferns)

(2) PHANEROGAMIA { A. _Gymnosperms_ (Firs, Yews, Cycads, &c.)
(Flowering { { _Monocotyledones_ (Grasses, Palms, Lilies,
Plants) { B. _Angiosperms_ { Orchids, &c.)
{ { _Dicotyledones_ (the great mass of Flowering
{ { Plants and Trees).

ST. GEORGE MIVART.

FOOTNOTES:

[4] CONTEMPORARY REVIEW, May, 1879, p. 261.

[5] _L. c._ p. 262.

[6] "A classification of any large portion of the field of Nature, in
conformity to the foregoing principles, has hitherto been found
practicable only in one great instance, that of animals."--_Logic_,
third edition, 1851, vol. i., chap. viii. Sec. 5, page 279.

[7] CONTEMPORARY REVIEW, July, 1879, pp. 716 and 717.

[8] _L. c._ p. 717.

[9] CO